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== New page for anti-polygamy legislation? ==
Hello, fellow Wikipedians! I have been editing on this page for a few months and I’ve also been compiling sources and information on federal anti-polygamy legislation. Since there is more information specific to anti-polygamy legislation in the United States, I have been thinking about making a new page for it. This page would be a spin-off page and would include the legal and historical background, the actors involved in creating the legislation, Mormon and non-Mormon response to the legislation, if the legislation passed, and the effects of the legislation. I have been drafting the page in my sandbox for the past month and have a lot of academic sources that provide more information. If I create this page, I would remove the subsection entitled “US government actions against polygamy” and put it on the new page. I would leave a short blurb of the legislation and a link to the new page on the Mormonism and polygamy page. I would love to hear your thoughts on this idea. Please let me know what you think! [[User:NatalieEmma.BYU|NatalieEmma.BYU]] ([[User talk:NatalieEmma.BYU|talk]]) 20:31, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

:I think that sounds like a great idea. I've seen antipolygamy treated as a discrete subject in an encyclopedia before (e. g. [https://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Antipolygamy_Legislation Ray Jay Davis, "Antipolygamy Legislation," ''Encyclopedia of Mormonism'']), so I think that could be a justifiable subject, especially since there's significant scholarly literature on the topic. I would also point out that there is a [[Legality of polygamy in the United States|"Legality of Polygamy in the United States" page]], with some references to newspaper articles and some references directly to state statutes. That one seems more to do with state level laws. Is the page you're thinking of going to be focused on federal law?
:Another thing to keep in mind is that there are or could be Wikipedia pages for each individual bill or law, so it might be good to think about the justification for having a consolidated page for numerous laws. I think it is justifiable, since it's a subject deemed fit of itself in an existing academic encyclopedia. Having the various laws in one place could also be useful for conveying to the reader how the laws work together and built on each other.
:Will the 'response' portion of subsections include judicial suits and rulings? For example, ''Reynolds v. United States'' deciding that the Morrill Act didn't violate the First Amendment, or how ''Cleveland v. United States'' (1946) ruled that the Mann Act (1910) ban on interstate trafficking for "any immoral purpose" applied to polygamy as well? [[User:Hydrangeans|Hydrangeans]] ([[She (pronoun)|she/her]] &#124; [[User talk:Hydrangeans#top|talk]] &#124; [[Special:Contributions/Hydrangeans|edits]]) 20:26, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[User:Hydrangeans]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> Thanks so much for replying. In the draft that I have been working on, I have only been focusing on federal laws so far. However, once I get the page finished and published, I would certainly be interested in adding information about state legislations.
In answer to your question about the "response" section, I was planning on including law suits and their effect as well as any public response from others (such as protests or petitions.) 
I'll keep working on the draft! Thanks for your input! [[User:NatalieEmma.BYU|NatalieEmma.BYU]] ([[User talk:NatalieEmma.BYU|talk]]) 21:33, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

== removed quote from Brigham Young reported by Wilford Woodruff ==

We were able to verify the quote about Brigham Young refusing to marry two young girls ages 12 and 13 to a man (you can see the page in the Wilford Woodruff diaries via the Wilford Woodruff papers [https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/documents/ec850713-babd-404e-a9e5-8829a3ac1086/page/5429f7b1-1ec4-4348-83f4-5c7131b3314d here]). If anyone knows of secondary sources that discuss the quote, we can include a summary of those findings on the page. We removed the quote because the commentary on it is original research, and including the quote without commentary seems unhelpful and unencyclopedic. [[User:Rachel Helps (BYU)|Rachel Helps (BYU)]] ([[User talk:Rachel Helps (BYU)|talk]]) 22:00, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

== Polygamy in Salt Lake City ==

Here's a newly added comment I am moving from the archives into a new discussion thread. [[User:Binksternet|Binksternet]] ([[User talk:Binksternet|talk]]) 22:05, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
{{blockquote|1=Hi Binksternet and bytebear! I was reading through the talk page and saw your comments. I found some recently published articles about polygamy in Utah (particularly the legal battles regarding polygamy.) I will be happy to add these in if wanted. Do you have a suggestion of where on the page this would fit best? Cheers! [[User:NatalieEmma.BYU|NatalieEmma.BYU]] ([[User talk:NatalieEmma.BYU|talk]]) 21:50, 17 June 2023 (UTC)}}
:::{{u|NatalieEmma.BYU}}, I would be interested to see your sources. If your material merits it, you could create a new section titled "Current status" or similar, describing modern cases of polygamy. [[User:Binksternet|Binksternet]] ([[User talk:Binksternet|talk]]) 22:05, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

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==Citation style standardization==

I propose to standardize this article's citation template style to the majority one per [[WP:CITESTYLE]] which says "citations within any given article should follow a consistent style". Reasoning: About 3/4ths (''73%'') of citations in this article are in the "cite x" style. Only '''44''' total citation templates are in a "harv" form, while '''119''' are in the "cite x" style (with an additional '''40''' footnotes referring to another "ref name" template citation). It would be a LOT more work to convert 73% of all citations to a "harv" format vs. converting the 27% minority to the majority "cite x"/"ref name" style to achieve the consistent style. ''Are there any opposed to me making the citation style uniform to "cite x" for this article?'' If I don't receive any opposing volunteers who will standardize it all to the minority "harv" style within a week or so I'll go ahead and standardize it all to the majority "cite x"/"ref name". [[User:Pastelitodepapa|Pastelitodepapa]] ([[User talk:Pastelitodepapa|talk]]) 03:47, 4 June 2025 (UTC)